JustFab sleept Fab.com voor de rechter
De Amerikaanse startup JustFab, kort voor Just Fabulous, heeft designwinkel Fab.com voor de rechter gesleept vanwege de ‘verwarringwekkende naam’.
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New York’s Fab.com Temporarily Halts Shipping Over Hurricane Sandy Fallout
The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is still affecting startups left and right. New York’s Fab.com sent a memo out to customers today saying that it is temporarily halting shipments of packages because its New Jersey-based warehouses are currently without power.
The company’s headquarters in New York’s West Village also remain without power and are closed. CEO Jason Goldberg says that about a dozen Fab employees are, in fact, working from his home right now trying to figure out how to get operations back in swing as soon as possible.
Lees meerTwo Ecommerce Sites Test Out Television (And Reveal Why Traditional Advertising May Trump Facebook)
A few days ago, I was perusing Mashable when I came across two interesting stories. These two stories captured my attention, and I thought it particularly intriguing the way in which they were positioned, one following the other. I’m sure it wasn’t Mashable’s intention, but this positioning seemed to be like an implicit comparison: Facebook […]
Lees meerFab Axes Sign-Up Requirement For Its Design Shop, Admits User Experience Sucked (But Did Help It Get 7M Users)
Big news and a big admission for online designer shop Fab.com as it continues to scale up and make itself more user-friendly: For the first time, the site is letting people browse its online shop without having to log in, putting the online shop in line with the company’s mobile app experience. The registration requirement has helped the company pick up 7 million registered users, “but it was not a great user experience,” Jason Goldberg, Fab’s CEO and founder, wrote today in a blog post. The company turned off the registration requirement today in the U.S., and Europe will come in 10 days.
“Great user experiences get out of the way and help people get shit done. Our mobile experience has not required login — that was the right way to do it,” he writes. From now, an account will only be required for those who want to add an item to a favorites list, or to buy something.
Lees meerFab Expands To Its 20th Country: Canada; Now On Track To $140M In Sales By Year-End
Fab.com’s international expansion continues, and this morning, the social shopping site is arriving in its 20th market: Canada. The additional market follows Fab’s European expansion to 13 more countries across Europe last month, which then brought Fab to 16 countries worldwide. Since then, it has also added Sweden, Poland and Cyrus to the list.
According to Fab CEO Jason Goldberg, customer demand for Canada was already fairly high, and Fab expects the region to soon account for at least 5% of revenue. Currently, 3%-5% of Fab.com traffic is from that Canada, despite Fab not having shipped there until now.
Lees meerFab Hits 2 Million Members, Plots International Expansion, Opens For All
Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg just made a significant announcement on his blog about some new and upcoming changes at the ridiculously fast-growing startup.
The design shopping site now boasts 2 million members, having added more than 400,000 new members in the past month and doubling membership since November. Expect that number to grow fast, because the site is now open for everyone immediately upon sign-up, and will soon become available in Canada and Europe to boot.
Lees meerNow At 1.4M Members, Fab.com Turns Up The Social With A ‘Live Feed’
Exclusive – Fab.com, the ridiculously fast growing e-commerce startup, is launching a new social shopping feature today that lets members view and interact with any activity on the design flash sales site in real-time.
Dubbed the ‘live feed’ and reminiscent of Facebook’s early iterations of what is now the News Feed, it captures what users are purchasing, sharing, commenting on etc.
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